Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1887-02-05

Land in the city of London increases in
value despite the general depression.
The flower sales in Paris during the last
three days of 1886 amounted to 100000
Every sixty ninth person in Scotland is
Smith, and every seventy eighth MacDon-
aid.
Maine is thinking Of increasing the sala.
ries of her Supreme Court Judges to So, 500
each.
An artesian well at St. Augustine, Fla
throws mp $4,000, 900 gallons Of sulphur
water daily.
Shipments of ostriches are being made
from Natal, Apico, to Galveston, Texas, and
New Zealand.
An English syndicate is negotiating with
the Baldwin Locomotive Works for a lot of
engines for Peruvian roads.
Secretary Whitney says no Arctic expedi.
tons will be sent out during this Admins
ton by his consent or advice.
The pay of the London police force is
EI,o5o, 62S; and the Commissioner is of the
opinion it is not sufficiently liberal.
1t is stated that the Italian Government
has ordered from the firm of Schwartzkopf
torpedoes to the value OF 5000, 900 marks.
The widow Of General Monthelon, Napo-
Icons companion at St. Helena, has Just
died at Bordeax, at the age of eighty five.
Guatemoczin, will be unveiled in the City OF
Mexico, with imposing ceremonies February
2Sth.
There are rumors in London of coming
divorce case in which the principal parties
will be the Princess Louise and the Marquis
OF Lorne.
The new business transacted by twenty
nine life insurance companies doing business
in New York State during 1886 amounted to
$500, 900, 900.
The Spanish Government is willing to
grant amnesty to Gorilla and other political
exles, provided their friends can induce them
to return to Spain.
Some friends of Princeton College have
provided funds to send an expedition under
Prof. Charles A. Young, to observe the
eclipse of August 10Th, in Russia.
Experts from the oil regions of Pennsyl
vania visiting Roanoke City claim that the
indications point to immense quantities OF
oil and natural gas in the vicinity.
As an illustration of the amount of work
performed in the Adams Express robbery
case, it is said that one man examined 5000
different specimens Of penmanship.
Rev. Mr.. Anderson, Protestant rector at
Dnnagh. County Cork, Ireland, amazed his
flock on recent Sunday by preaching Wig
orous sermon on the sin of land grabbing.
Mr.. Anderson has long been boycotted by
the local landlords for espousing the Nation
alist cause.
Miss Matilda Johnson has just died in
London, one hundred and sixteen years old.
Eighty nine years ago her intended husband
died suddenly, and she made will giving
her entire fortune to the military hospital.
and directed that 'Love killed her" should
be engraved on her tombstone.
| Bokhara, the noble, the richest, most en-
lightened and most holy Of all Mohamme
dan nations in Central Asia, and beyond it,
has just officially declared the complete alb
oitien Of slavery. Up to the present this
curse had not altogether disappeared, al.
though it was generally assumed that since
Russia secured contrel over the Ameer's
country it had quite ceased to exist.
At the court reception at Berlin recently
Emperor William informed the assembled
officers that 7s.ooo men Of the reserves would
be called out Immediately and drilled in the
use of the new repeating rife. This an.
nouncement, taken in conjunction with the
reported words of Crown Prince Frederick
William, at the same reception, that the sit
uation was still serious, renews public alarm.
Physically the Car Of Russia is the
strongest man in Europe. When he was
Czarewitch he one day took gold ruble in
his hands and by main strength twisted it
into corkscrew. Throwing the mutilated
coin at the Project of Police, he said, 'li
you open one of my letters in the future, |
will treat you as have this coin" The
incident was the outcome Of an order on the
part of the Gar that all letters should be
opened by the police.